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Yeah - 'irresistable' is a good word. I'm trying not to get too excited about this, after all the pitching he's facing is going to improve, but man it's a nice sign.

Definitely not a good sign.

I had a fast car and I used to drive pretty hard but ironically (and mostly luckily) enough I always ended up with the car under control after someone else's accident. Funniest one was one night late coming back from A^2 as a student I had gone via Brighton (the current southern route of I96 wasn't in yet) and I was on Grand River instead of I-96 and all of sudden there are headlights on the ground in front of me. A guy had fallen asleep at the wheel, careened off the FW and rolled over ending up with his car upside down on GR Ave right in front of me. The guy was just crawling out of the window (had used his seat belt!) - seemed to be alright. I put a warning flasher I had on the car and drove the guy - 35ish upperclass by all appearance - over to the Mobil station that used to be at KentLakeRd. So the funny thing was when the State Troopers showed up they immediately start interviewing me - the long haired scuffy looking kid, about how I totalled my car. I took it as one of the great moral victories of my young life to be able to point the cops across the room to my rescued Yuppie. So maybe Carter is alright....maybe.

Torkelson with another big exit velo (107) off a fast ball for a base hit. This spring has been quite the turnaround - if can keep this up.....

Last has exactly the correct term: "Serious People" I think affluence has left us with too many millions in this country that span from the boomers right down to the millenials who have led such sheltered lives, whole lives so protected from consequences, who've had somebody else ffollowing behind them to clean up all the messes they have made in lives, devoid of any need to actually consider that actions have outcomes, that they simple don't qualify as serious people. And they make bad voters.

So after Trump wipes the floor with DeSantis in the early primaries, who are the GOP rump anti-trumpers going to throw in with?

I wonder if the next one will be sent out with a couple of F15s loitering 20k feet above.

That is true, but Ukraine is fully mobilized, motivated and has been able to train, re-arm at with increasingly modern weapons, and rotate and reconsititute its forces. The Russians are throwing the dregs of their society - convicts and what's left of the young adult population that didn't have the sense, ability to think for themselves and social competence to flee the country already and often with 80yr kit, into a fight they have no interest in. Take your choice.

If you pay attention to Cramer, you deserve what you get! CNBC is the finanace version of Fox news. In a way, Cramer and Carlson are basically the same person journalistically speaking, in the sense that the show is 100% about stroking the viewer's existing sensibilities for ratings and not the value of any information presented.

Yeah - I thought Lipcius might get a longer look due to plate discipline he showed last year.

yeah - all kinds of reporting from NY State last week that an indictment was 'imminent', and thus far....crickets.

Most cancer clusters go unsolved. You have a sample of 350 million patients, you are going to see a lot of things just by random chance, and you have an incredibly complex chemical environment in the modern world and everybody has lived a slightly different life so tracking that is nearly impossible, and you have an incredibly complex human genome that makes the odd person here or there responds to something no-one else does. So sure, do the level best you can to figure it out, but don't go into the task with too much optimism.

two more 100mph+ shots.

UM - if you have a *surplus* that's because you are selling oil but no-one will sell *you* anything. Seems that is pretty much what the international community has been aiming at. No-on had any illusions you could stop India and China from buying Russian oil.

LOL. But the etiology of Legionaires is well understood. The bug actually lives out in the environment everywhere, whether it can concentrate pretty much comes down to plumbing design and water supply properties. It had never been found because it wouldn't grow in any of the conventional lab media being used up until then. One of my wife's coworkers has a strain of legionella named after her as she was the first to isolate it in a UM clinical pathology lab.

Certainly ominous, but OTOH, it can be very hard to achieve much scientific certainty with clusters of rare cancers. It's probably the case that millions have had significant exposure to PFAs, but millions haven't gotten glioblastoma. Can they/have they determine(d) if the Phillies were doing something to their field that that all the other teams from the era with similar turf were not? etc. Which is not to say the civil courts might not reach their own verdict.

https://emersoncollegepolling.com/new-hampshire-2024-trump-holds-41-point-lead-for-republican-nomination/

Pitino is goingo to end up in the Big East....

We'll see in the next few months where the capabilities of each side actually stand. Russia has thrown everything they have and fundamentally have not moved the line. Ukraine has withstood all that so far and is still building capability - enough to force the Russians to sue for peace on their terms? Unknown, but I think we can be pretty certain they are going to try before the year is out. Then final outcome likelihoods will become clearer.

you remeber the old line: "There is no clock in baseball"? As of today you can retire it. Who thought they'd ever see a baseball game end on a clock running out?

Netherlands eliminated at WBC so we get Schoop back. He was 1 for 13 with 6 K's. ........whoopie.🎉

Greiner hits it to the CF wall and is out. HR at new COPA?

And they *would* move Stafford if they *could*

Wagner opening up recruitment centers around Russia. How stable can a country be with growing private army running around? Maybe we shouldn't discount that one way this war ends for the Ukrainians is when Prigozhin's Wagner and Putin's MOD break into open warfare with each other to control the country. Sort of a repeat of the Russian exit from WWI?

reports that a US B-52 with Polish figher escorts "toured" the Gulf of Finland today - virtually on the Russian border. I wonder if a part of this is NATO is saying to Russia - "You can make a 100% resource commitment to your operations in Ukraine but there is no free lunch - it's going to cost you not being able to respond to who knows what we might be up to on your borders. Have a nice day Ivan."